Search for the familon via B X0, B KX0, and B0 Ks0X0 decays Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A search for the decay of the meson BHX0 and B0Ks0X0 was performed. The upper limits for the branching fractions constrained new physics leading to two-body B decays involving any massless neutral feebly interacting particle X0. The first lower bound on the family symmetry breaking scale involving the third generation of quarks at 108 GeV was obtained by applying the limit to the case where X0 was a familon.

published proceedings

  • Physical Review Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Ammar, R., Bean, A., Besson, D., Zhao, X., Anderson, S., Frolov, V. V., ... Berger, B. E.

complete list of authors

  • Ammar, R||Bean, A||Besson, D||Zhao, X||Anderson, S||Frolov, VV||Kubota, Y||Lee, SJ||Poling, R||Smith, A||Stepaniak, CJ||Urheim, J||Ahmed, S||Alam, MS||Athar, SB||Jian, L||Ling, L||Saleem, M||Timm, S||Wappler, F||Anastassov, A||Eckhart, E||Gan, KK||Gwon, C||Hart, T||Honscheid, K||Hufnagel, D||Kagan, H||Kass, R||Pedlar, TK||Thayer, JB||von Toerne, E||Zoeller, MM||Richichi, SJ||Severini, H||Skubic, P||Undrus, A||Savinov, V||Chen, S||Hinson, JW||Lee, J||Miller, DH||Pavlunin, V||Shibata, EI||Shipsey, IPJ||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Lyon, AL||Thorndike, EH||Coan, TE||Fadeyev, V||Gao, YS||Maravin, Y||Narsky, I||Stroynowski, R||Ye, J||Wlodek, T||Artuso, M||Benslama, K||Boulahouache, C||Bukin, K||Dambasuren, E||Majumder, G||Mountain, R||Skwarnicki, T||Stone, S||Wang, JC||Wolf, A||Kopp, S||Kostin, M||Mahmood, AH||Csorna, SE||Danko, I||McLean, KW||Xu, Z||Godang, R||Bonvicini, G||Cinabro, D||Dubrovin, M||McGee, S||Bornheim, A||Lipeles, E||Pappas, SP||Shapiro, A||Sun, WM||Weinstein, AJ||Jaffe, DE||Mahapatra, R||Masek, G||Paar, HP||Asner, DM||Eppich, A||Hill, TS||Morrison, RJ||Briere, RA||Chen, GP||Ferguson, T||Vogel, H||Alexander, JP||Bebek, C||Berger, BE

publication date

  • December 2001